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[Giant lipoma of the third finger: a case report]
I Abkari1, A El Abidi, M Latifi
1Service d'orthopédie traumatologie B, CHU de Mohammed VI, Marrakech, Maroc. abkari_imad@yahoo.fr
Chirurgie De La Main
|March 4, 2011
Abstract:
Lipomas are benign tumors composed of mature fat. They rarely arise in the hand and are even rarer in the fingers. The lipoma is called "giant" when the resected specimen exceeds 5 cm in diameter. We report a rare case of giant lipoma in a finger.